ASOKE K. NANDI received the degree of Ph.D from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), Cambridge, UK, in 1979. He held several research positions in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Switzerland), Department of Physics, Queen Mary College (London, UK) and Department of Nuclear Physics (Oxford, UK). In 1987, he joined the Imperial College, London, UK, as the Solartron Lecturer in the Signal Processing Section of the Electrical Engineering Department. In 1991, he jointed the Signal Processing Division of the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department in the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, as a Senior Lecturer; subsequently, he was appointed a Reader in 1995 and a Professor in 1998. In March 1999 he moved to the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, to take up his appointment to the David Jardine Chair of Signal Processing in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics.

In 1983 he was a member of the UA1 team at CERN that discovered the three fundamental particles known as W?, W? and Z° providing the evidence for the unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces, which was recognized by the Nobel Committee for Physics in 1984. Currently, he is the Head of the Signal Processing and Communications Research Group with interests in the areas of non-linear and non-Gaussian signal processing, communications and machine learning research. With his group he has been carrying out research in blind source separation, development and applications of machine learning, machine condition monitoring, signal modelling, communication signal processing, and biomedical signal processing. He has authored or co-authored over 300 technical publications, including two books - “Automatic Modulation Recognition of Communications Signals” (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic, 1996) and “Blind Estimation Using Higher-Order Statistics” (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic, 1999) – and over 130 journal papers.

Professor Nandi was awarded the Mounbatten Premium, Division Award of the Electronics and Communications Division, of the Institution of Electrical Engineers of the U.K. in 1998 and the Water Arbitration Prize of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of the U.K. in 1999. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Institute of Mathematics and its applications, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society for Arts.